Ideal for 7-14 year olds, this is a 3-hour session which combines building nature identification skills, vocabulary building, and imaginative description using all five senses to explore nature. Workshops for KidsĪlong with local ecologists, we offer a nature-walk-and-poetry-workshop to explore local green spaces and use language and creative writing to engage with the natural world. Read more about this and download the packs for free here. We have also created a number of activity packs for you to recreate the workshops for yourselves at home. We have a programme of activities inspired by this book for both kids and grown-ups, which we have run in community centres, with organizations and charities, and which can be booked for school groups. This is a magical collection of acrostic poems by Macfarlane, gorgeously illustrated by Morris, which re-conjures these words, brings them back to our hearts and minds, and helps children – and adults! – to discover the natural world around them. The dictionary, reflecting the frequency of words in the daily language of children, threw into undeniable relief the idea that children are losing touch with nature. Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris created this spellbinding collection in response to the 2007 edition of the Oxford Junior Dictionary which introduced new words such as “broadband” and “blog” while words relating to the natural world (acorn, wren, otter, willow, to name a few) were lost.
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